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...warmth or expression. His first marriage, to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, King Farouk's sister, ended in a 1948 divorce when the Shah concluded that she could not give him a male heir (a daughter, Princess Shahnaz, is now 39). Three years later, the Shah married Soraya Esfandiari, a beautiful Iranian commoner. He divorced her in 1958, again because the union failed to produce an heir. In 1959, he married Farah Diba, then a 21-year-old architecture student in Paris. Sensitive and compassionate, Farah sought to soften the harsh policies of her husband when possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Emperor Who Died an Exile | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...named after one of his favorites, Tavous Khanoum, or Lady Peacock. * In 1939 the Shah married Princess Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's King Farouk, who had been chosen by his father before he ever saw her. He divorced her in 1948 and married Soraya Esfandiari, whom he divorced in 1958 after she failed to bear him an heir. The next year he married Farah Diba. They have four children: Crown Prince Reza, Prince Ali Reza and Princesses Farahnaz and Leila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Egypt's Princess Fawzia. King Farouk's sister, Who is now married to an Egypitian busniessman, and to Iran's Esfandiari, who lives in Europe and has never remarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Farah: The Working Empress | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...SORAYA ESFANDIARI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...eyed, wistful Princess Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari, 25, divorced wife of Iran's Shah, arrived in Manhattan aboard the liner Constitution, hoping for privacy, found instead some 125 press and TV reporters at dockside to welcome her. With eager local newsmen breathlessly reporting every other step, the shapely princess shopped on Fifth Avenue, dined at East Side nightspots, at week's end sailed off for some Bermuda sun-and probably some Bermuda privacy as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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